English Explanatory Dictionary

paratyphoid fever

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.

Word forms

paratyphoid fever paratyphoid fevers

Etymology

From para- + typhoid fever.

Related words

enteric fever necrotic enteritis
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